Comments on: Deconstructing Classics.app

By: iisword

iisword — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:22:01 +0000

anyone know where I can get these images

By: longlh

longlh — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:20:42 +0000

Sr. My mail is longlh@vpoint.com.vn. Thank again !

By: longlh

longlh — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:15:56 +0000

Hi everybody !
can you post yr source code? or please send it to my mail. Thanks. I’m newbie.

By: ltgbau

ltgbau — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:18:15 +0000

Thanks for the great work! >:D<

By: Thomas Griffith

Thomas Griffith — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:29:29 +0000

I have sucessfully added 4 of my own eBooks to Classics. It’s easy. All you have to do is set the page size in Word to that of the PDFs, and set about half inch margins at the top and bottom so text won’t get cut off. Paste in each chapter and export each as the numbered PDFs (Word 2007 has PDF export). Be sure to make the title pages too! Finally, since I don’t mind playing with vector art, you can easily make a book spine and back shadow in Inkscape, then paste on the book’s actual cover. And for the best part, copy onto you’re jailbroke iDevice into the Classics’ app sandbox.

By: Andrew Pouliot

Andrew Pouliot — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:51:40 +0000

Yeah, you can grab the content within a certain visible frame, but there are a couple gotchas:

1. If you resize the webview to grab more content, it doesn’t draw instantly an there is no callback to tell you when it’s done drawing

2. Web content in general doesn’t play very well with fitting on a page or finding the proper size of a webpage so you can grab all of it.

All of this will be pretty passé once CoreText and NSAttributedString come to iPhone though. They’re available on iPad, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time. (OS 4.0?)

By: Steve Breen

Steve Breen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:22:53 +0000

Useful deconstruction, thanks for putting this out there.

If I understand what you are looking to do with rendering an arbitrary view hierarchy (webview, whatever) there’s a pretty simple method I’ve been using for sometime…

Here’s a sample app the renders a UIWebView and slaps the result into a a UIImageView.

http://github.com/breeno/iPhoneOS-quick-hits

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:08:32 +0000

Hi,

I appreciate the pointers. I’ll start from there. Thank you very much.

Daniel

By: Andrew Pouliot

Andrew Pouliot — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:18:28 +0000

@Daniel I haven’t done too much with PDF, but I presume you can create your CGPDFDocumentRef with CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL, then use CGPDFDocumentGetPage to get a CGPDFPageRef and then pass that to CGContextDrawPDFPage.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:08:26 +0000

Hi,

When you say:

“Unlike the HTML/WebKit rendering on the iPhone, there does exist a simple way to get an image from a PDF page.”

I wonder. How do you do that? I have some experience programming the iphone and I don’t know how to do this. Would you mind giving me some pointers?

Thanks,
Daniel